AIVF Birmingham
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
 
Ezine Number 40, May 20, 2003
 
Premiere "The Last Kiss"
 
My latest film is finally completed and I have reserved the Southside
Library for a premiere showing. The details are below:
 
Place: Southside Library, 1814 11th Ave South, Birmingham, AL, across from the Post Office.

Title: "The Last Kiss"
Time: 7:00 pm
Date: Friday, May 23, 2003 (Premiere night)
      Saturday, May 24, 2003
Running Time: 30 minutes
Admission: Free
 
Description: A short film about a young man's struggle to overcome a
childhood phobia so he can pursue the girl of his affection.
 
see you there,
Tam Le
 
Premiere "Under The Sidewalk Moon"  
 
SIDEWALK MOON FILMS ANNOUNCES ITS ALABAMA PREMIERE OF THE INDEPENDENT FILM "UNDER THE SIDEWALK MOON" AT TUSCALOOSA'S BAMA THEATRE MAY 22nd, 2003
 
Sidewalk Moon Films announces its Alabama Premiere of the independent film, entitled "Under the Sidewalk Moon" at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 22nd, 2003, with doors opening at 7:00pm. For ticket information, please contact Steve Moon at 205-567-8518 or via email at swmoon1@hotmail.com.
 
"The movie is quite an accomplishment. I was writer, director, editor, producer, and everything else you can imagine. It was quite challenging working with schedules and scouting locations on top of a full time job", says Steve Moon, the film's producer. "I have written everything from music video treatments to screenplays, and after having been burned in Hollywood when a major film was produced and released based on my work, well I decided to go into indies. I worked with "Boys Don't Cry" director Kimberly Peirce as I began production of Sidewalk Moon."
 
The Tuscaloosa premiere is one of many screenings throughout the Southeast, including Franklin, TN; Atlanta, GA; and Chattanooga, TN. Sidewalk Moon Films is currently in pre-production for another feature film being shot in the Birmingham area. 
 
Sidewalk Moon Films is a full scale production company specializing in script supervision, casting and production of documentaries, shorts, and feature films. For more information on Sidewalk Moon Films, please contact Steve Moon at 205-567-8518 or email at swmoon1@hotmail.com.
 
-submitted by Steve Moon
 
For those who were actors in the film call Steve Moon at 567-8518 for complimentary tickets
 
Filmmakers Resource
 
With all the fanfare about the upcoming change of aspect ratios from 1-1:33  to 1-1:78 (marketed as 16:9) for our U.S. television systems you can see why some of us film afficinados of the previous decades are sort of ho-hum about the idea. The American Wide Screen Museum at http://widescreenmuseum.com  will show what BIG screen presentations really are. With the information about Cinerama, Cinemascope, Vistavision, Superscope, Todd AO and a few more nearly forgotten formats, you can dust off those old anamorphic primes that you've been using as paperweights and decide which lens system to film your next indy production with.
 
Not only valuable for it's historical detail, the Wide Screen Museum also discusses the so-called 'bigger is better' hype of DVD and what you have to watch out for as consumers, http://widescreenmuseum.com/special/caveat_emptor.htm .
 
There are additional catagories about the development of color film stock and sound tracks and special video downloads about the renovation of Cinerama theaters to show movies like "How The West Was Won" in it's original three film presentation.
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